Uncolonized Podcast
1) Grocery Store Security Guards and the Collapse of Abundance
The security guard at the grocery store is a sign before they are a deterrent. This episode takes Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower as its anchor and reads scarcity not as a natural condition but ...Show More
2) Childs Was Right
In 1982, John Carpenter released The Thing β a film about paranoia in isolation.But beneath the alien horror is a quieter question:Why does crisis always seem to produce the same kind of leader?From S...Show More
3) βElbows Up, Davos, and The Shock Doctrine
This week, we examine the βElbows Upβ movement and Mark Carneyβs Davos speech through the framework of Naomi Kleinβs The Shock Doctrine. When crisis rhetoric meets elite policy, what changes β and wha...Show More
4) Why Does Society Feel Like an Art Gallery?
What actually gives people power today?π Park Bench Ontology β existential comedy for the end of the world.π Follow & Support:π Website: http://gavinstephens.caπ§ Podcast: https://pod.link/uncoloni...Show More
5) The Real Housewives of the Overlook Hotel
What happens when reality TV becomes a haunted house?This episode looks at The Shining and The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City as the same structure repeating itself: endless luxury, frozen time, an...Show More
6) State & Revolution at the Dinner Table | Park Bench Ontology S2E3
Arguments about communism, socialism, and capitalism rarely fail because people disagree.They fail because nobody is using the same definitions.This episode looks at how political language turns into ...Show More
7) EPISODE 2 - Enframing & Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Episode 2 of Park Bench Ontology looks at enframing β the idea that modern systems donβt just control what we do, but how the world shows up to us in the first place.Using Do Androids Dream of Electri...Show More
8) Burnout Is a Feature, Not a Bug
Burnout isnβt an accident.In this episode, I sit on a park bench and talk about why stillness feels suspicious, why boredom is treated like a problem, and how a society built on constant stimulation q...Show More
9) Simulation / Spectacle: The Real Satanic Panic
They told us fantasy games were dangerous, but reality was the real cult. In Episode 8, Gavin looks at how the Satanic Panic became a rehearsal for todayβs culture wars β a simulation of evil that kep...Show More
10) Necropolitics: Living Isnβt the Point Anymore
This week, Gavin looks at necropolitics β the philosophy of who gets to live, whoβs left to die, and how power hides behind empathy.From Charlie Kirkβs empathy shaming to the way immigrants, women, an...Show More